| 14th Street Reunion |
14th STREET REUNION is a musical reuniting of friends and family from Honey Grove, Texas.
Members of the group lived across the street from each other in the 1960's, and their "playing"
involved bicycles, BB guns, and kites. Over the years, each individual grew, not only in stature,
but in musical ability. Decades later, they came together on April 1 of 2006 to perform their first
concert together at the Wylie Opry in Wylie, Texas.
Making her stage debut in Wylie, playing upright bass, is Lenora Gauldin from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Lenora discovered her love of playing bass while visiting the Paris Violin Shop with her brother in
October of 2005. After listening intently to the playing of upright bassist, Joe Julian of Paris,
Lenora quickly asked "can I try that?" Within a week, Lenora had located and purchased her own
bass in Tulsa, and hasn't put it down yet! Lenora has played clarinet, piano, and some banjo in
the past, but believes that she has finally discovered her true musical talent.
Lenora's brother, Boyd Hudgens, began playing ukulele when he was ten years old. Over the
years, the musical influences of his grandfather and several other family members lead Boyd to
experiment with guitar, banjo, dobro and pedal steel guitar. Boyd's primary interests are banjo and
steel guitar. In 1976, he won his first banjo contest at the First Annual Bluegrass Festival of East
Texas State University in Commerce. In 1979, he took home the Championship trophy from Bill
Grant's Bluegrass Festival in Hugo, Oklahoma.
Also in 1976, Boyd was reunited "musically" with the neighbor who lived across the street from
him and Lenora in the 60's. Gary Moreland had returned from living in California, and the two
met on the "square" one night in Small Town, USA...Honey Grove, Texas. Gary was packing a
guitar, and Boyd, a banjo. After stepping off ten paces, turning, and firing at each other for a
couple of hours, they discovered how much fun dueling with banjo and guitar really was! Before
long, the two had their own live bluegrass show, Saturday mornings on radio station KFYN of
Bonham, Texas
The ensuing years carried Boyd and Gary through their first progressive country band together,
the Bois d'Arc Bottom Boys. Gary was the band leader and wrote several songs including
"Endless Search" and "It's You", which the band recorded as their first 45 RPM record. After a
few years, the band split and each went their separate way. Lenora married and traveled around
the world as the wife of an Air Force pilot.
Together again after 30 years, Lenora, Boyd, and Gary, perform a mixture of bluegrass, country,
and gospel music, with a touch of "Hee Haw" comedy, as "14th Street Reunion."
Members of the group lived across the street from each other in the 1960's, and their "playing"
involved bicycles, BB guns, and kites. Over the years, each individual grew, not only in stature,
but in musical ability. Decades later, they came together on April 1 of 2006 to perform their first
concert together at the Wylie Opry in Wylie, Texas.
Making her stage debut in Wylie, playing upright bass, is Lenora Gauldin from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Lenora discovered her love of playing bass while visiting the Paris Violin Shop with her brother in
October of 2005. After listening intently to the playing of upright bassist, Joe Julian of Paris,
Lenora quickly asked "can I try that?" Within a week, Lenora had located and purchased her own
bass in Tulsa, and hasn't put it down yet! Lenora has played clarinet, piano, and some banjo in
the past, but believes that she has finally discovered her true musical talent.
Lenora's brother, Boyd Hudgens, began playing ukulele when he was ten years old. Over the
years, the musical influences of his grandfather and several other family members lead Boyd to
experiment with guitar, banjo, dobro and pedal steel guitar. Boyd's primary interests are banjo and
steel guitar. In 1976, he won his first banjo contest at the First Annual Bluegrass Festival of East
Texas State University in Commerce. In 1979, he took home the Championship trophy from Bill
Grant's Bluegrass Festival in Hugo, Oklahoma.
Also in 1976, Boyd was reunited "musically" with the neighbor who lived across the street from
him and Lenora in the 60's. Gary Moreland had returned from living in California, and the two
met on the "square" one night in Small Town, USA...Honey Grove, Texas. Gary was packing a
guitar, and Boyd, a banjo. After stepping off ten paces, turning, and firing at each other for a
couple of hours, they discovered how much fun dueling with banjo and guitar really was! Before
long, the two had their own live bluegrass show, Saturday mornings on radio station KFYN of
Bonham, Texas
The ensuing years carried Boyd and Gary through their first progressive country band together,
the Bois d'Arc Bottom Boys. Gary was the band leader and wrote several songs including
"Endless Search" and "It's You", which the band recorded as their first 45 RPM record. After a
few years, the band split and each went their separate way. Lenora married and traveled around
the world as the wife of an Air Force pilot.
Together again after 30 years, Lenora, Boyd, and Gary, perform a mixture of bluegrass, country,
and gospel music, with a touch of "Hee Haw" comedy, as "14th Street Reunion."
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